Ornamental material.



No. 824,444. PATENTED JUNE 26, 1906 J. SGHUREK.

ORNAMENTAL MATERIAL.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 7. 1905.

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ORNAMENTAI MATERIAL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 7, 1905. Serial No. 272,978-

Patented. June 26, 1906.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH SOHUREK, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State ofWisconsin, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements inOrnamentalMaterial; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description thereof.

My invention consists in certain peculiarities of construction andcombination of parts, hereinafter particularly set forth with referenceto the accom anying drawings and subse uently claime its object being toprovi e simple, economical, and eflective ornamental material embodyingflora in various fanciful designs for decorative and other purposes.

Figure lof the drawings re resents a lam shade, the major portion 0which is ma e from ornamental material in accordance with my invention;and Fig. 2 a sectional view of similar material.

Referring by letterto the drawings, A indicates a lamp-shade, the majorportion of which comprises a body-sheet B or backing of any suitable,preferably translucent, substance havin sufiicient thickness and rigidity to hold-t e shape into which it is fashioned. Mounted upon the sheetB and grouped in any fanciful design or designs are natural flowers andfoliage D, either or both in the same design. The flora is held inposition byfa thin retaining-sheet C, of transparent substance, glued orotherwise adhesively attached to the body-sheet and pressed in place tothus rigidly secure the aforesaid flora in raised air-tight pockets orcells.

In the manufacture of the ornamental ma terial the flora is first laid uon the bodysheet B to form a design or esigns such as fancy may dictate,after whichthe thin transparent sheet 0, coated with transparent glue orother suitable transparent adhesive material, is pressed in place, theresult being apermanent setting of the flora desi or designs, each pieceof which is held air-tight u on the aforesaid body-sheet. By reason ofte delicate thinness of the trans arent sheet C of the finished materialthe ora of said material is not onlyvisible, but it has an embossedeffect upon the body-sheet of the aforesaid material, said flora beingin a series of separate raised cells upon said body-sheet, as

shown in Fig. 2 and above specified.

While I have shown and described my invention as applied to a lam-shade, its use for decorative pur oses is in efinite, it beingparticularly usefu as an aid to instruction in botany. When the materialas a whole is used for wall decoration or for binding in volumes, itsbody-sheet may be opaque instead of translucent; but in any event theflora is preserved in a series of trans arent raised cells u on saidbody-sheet to o tain the embosse eflect above specified.

Having now fully described my invention,

what I claim, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An ornamental material comprising a backing-or body-sheet, a designof natural flora arranged on the body-sheet, and a retaining-sheetof'thin transparent substance adhesively secured to said body-sheet overthe floraand pressed in place to retain this flora in a series ofseparate raisedcells, whereby it has an embossed effect upon theaforesaid body-sheet.

2. An ornamental material comprising a body-sheet of translucentsubstance, a design of natural flora arranged thereon, and aretaining-sheet of thin transparent substance adhesively secured to saidbody-sheet over the flora and pressed in place to retainthis flora inseparate raised cells, whereby it has an embossed effect upon theaforesaid bodysheet.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand atMilwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsm, 1n thepresence of two witnesses.

-JOSEPH SCHUREK.

' Witnesses:

GEo. W. YOUNG, GEORGE FELBEB.

